Nixon years and wartime turn pivot in U S politics
The piece surveys President Nixon's first term highlighting military pullbacks in Vietnam, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and economic shifts. It notes tax and wage controls, the 1971 wage price move, and rising inflation, with McGovern opposing Vietnam strategy as Nixon seeks re election. The report covers Nixon speeches, Kissinger diplomacy, and domestic debate.
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Nixon nomination fight looms at GOP convention showdown
The Florida convention scene shows a split between large state moderates and small state conservatives over delegate allocation for the 1976 Republican nominating doings. Nixon heads toward renomination with a planned Miami Beach welcome and a late week convention push after a long Rules Committee session.
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Explosion at Newry customs post kills six in Northern Ireland violence
In Newry a blast at a border customs post killed six, with two guerrillas among the dead and two more seriously injured. The toll raises Northern Ireland's death count to 524 after three years of violence. Across Ulster gunmen attacked a Belfast police inspector and branded Catholic Nancy Comiskey with tar and feathers in Glasdrummond.
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Pregnant GOP delegate jokes at Nixon event in Miami Beach
Mrs. Stan Stooksberry of Fort Worth, seven months pregnant, caused laughter at a Republican convention floor in Miami Beach. She wore a yellow maternity dress and a red Nixon badge with a Virgin Islands button, saying she may vote by absentee ballot due in October.
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South Vietnamese offer to free 600 prisoners of war
The Saigon government proposed returning 600 disabled North Vietnamese POWs unconditionally and granted amnesty to 496 South Vietnamese prisoners. The move, announced during Vu Lan, aims at potential reciprocity with Hanoi and broader humanitarian policy.
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